Last week I published an article called Keep Your RSS Fresh With Keyword-Based Feeds. But it’s not the first time I’ve mentioned or written about RSS – I’ve been messing around with RSS feeds for over 20 years!
In fact, back around 2004 or 2005 I made a tool called Kebberfegg, which was an easy way to create keyword-based RSS feeds. It was written in Perl, however, which meant I had to goof around on the server every time I wanted to change it, and eventually I wasn’t able to keep up with it and it got lost in a server move.
But NOW it is 2022, and I don’t have to use Perl. I can use JavaScript and do everything on a Web page. So I did, and now you can use Kebberfegg at https://researchbuzz.github.io/Kebberfegg/ .
Using Kebberfegg is very simple. Enter the query you want to turn into an RSS feed. Then tick each box/resource for which you want an RSS feed. The feeds will appear underneath.
This tool is JavaScript and HTML and gets confused when you click and unclick. So when you’re ready to create a new set of RSS feeds, just reload the page to reset the checkboxes.
Currently Kebberfegg creates keyword-based RSS feeds for the following sources:
- Bing
- Bing News
- Google News
- Hacker News
- WordPress.com
- Internet Archive
- U.S. Federal Register
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- EPA
- Blawg Search
If you know of any other keyword-based RSS feeds I should put here (I’d love to add PubMed but I don’t think I can) please leave a comment or drop me an email.
Yes, RSS is old technology. But if you’re trying to keep up with a topic of interest, it’s critical! I literally could not do ResearchBuzz without RSS feeds. What would I do otherwise, rely on social media algorithms?
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